Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:44 am Post subject: What exactally can i do with the framebuffer

This might be a stupid question. It's kinda sorta support, but if i posted in the wrongforum (again) sorry.

Can i run normal graphical apps w/out X on the framembuffer. Just like i do now, but without the huge overhead of x. I emerged xdirectfb. What else would i have to do. I have a geforece3 and would like acceleration and GLX, but it's no big deal as i don't play games much.

sadly nvidia and the frame buffer really dont go well together. Although you can get gtk for the frame buffer so most of gnome will fit on it, (don't know for sure about the panel there may be some direct X calls there)

honestly though the overhead of X isn't that bad. I used to think that the frame buffer was the way to go but after reading a lot of different stuff i am a little more partial to X myself.

i tried to emerge xdirectfb-0.3-r1 which depends on DirectFB 0.9.16
When i merge DirectF i get an error saying libasound/la can't be found. I had alsa at one point, but removed a long time ago. i have -alsa in USE and i added --disable-alsa to the ebuild. i also remerged libtool. What do i ned do

chmodding did the trick.
i emerged gpm. I have 2 questions:
1) how do i make gpm use 2 mice. I have a touchpad and an external mouse. They're on different devices. How can i make it emulate 3 buttons?

2) links2 still doesn't resopond to the mouse right. if i mouve the PS/2 touchpad the cursor jumps to the upper left corner of the screen. Moving the usb mouse does nothing. This happens with gpm off, configured to sue the touchpad or the usb mouse. gps seems to be working fine.

EDIT
I remerged links with fb support and it now works w/ the mouse. It didn't when running w/ svgalib.

i tried to emerge xdirectfb-0.3-r1 which depends on DirectFB 0.9.16
When i merge DirectF i get an error saying libasound/la can't be found. I had alsa at one point, but removed a long time ago. i have -alsa in USE and i added --disable-alsa to the ebuild. i also remerged libtool. What do i ned do

This is still a problem.
Sorry to bump but i was afraid it was overlooked in my slew of questions.

i got xdirectfb working. However i can't start stuff in it. I assume i need to rebuild everything the fbcon USE var.

Also how do i get my mouse that's enabled in gpm to only move the pointer in xdirectfb? It moves the pointer, but the gpm curser also shows up and leaves black streaks accross the screen and isn't aligned w/ the pointer.

I still wonder how to get gpm to use both mice.

UPDATE: I remerged fluxbox,but when i start it in dfbserverrc I get an error saying it can't connect to display.
GTK apps also say the can't open display.

Anyone has experience with the aty128fb driver? I have an ATI Rage Fury Pro card. The framebuffer driver is working (bootlogo, nice console at 1280x1024). I emerged directfb and xdirectfb but after startxdfb the screen is black. ctrl+alt+back is stopping the X-Server. I can see the messages from directfb (version 0.9.16, mouse, keyboard, screen added, ...). Mplayer with -vo directfb started is also not working. I just get green/black vertical stripes.
If I use the VESA fb-driver everything is fine, except the fonts at 1280x1024 are ugly. I've to use 1024x768 then.